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What HR Has Learned From Marketing

The Horizons Tracker

In the first phase, they highlight how companies were focused on process improvement via approaches such as Six Sigma and Total Quality Management. This phase saw product development oriented around what would deliver the greatest boost to customer satisfaction. Stage 1 – process improvement.

Marketing 111
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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

Strategy Driven

By blindly creating and/or tolerating working conditions in which people do not and often cannot effectively listen to one another, we kill productivity and profitability. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7 ! 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 2 of 7.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge.

Ohno 50
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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas. They have sustained tremendous improvement in productivity, effectiveness, and attentiveness to opportunities. They’ve been through the paradigm shift.

Execution 101
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Core Elements to Leading a Peak Performance Culture

The Practical Leader

We’ve been working with more and more executive teams who proclaim strategies for transforming their culture toward higher safety, customer service, innovation, Lean/Six Sigma approaches, productivity, employee engagement, or new technology platforms. They’re innocently ignorant.

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The Next Big Thing in Managing Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Related processes like Six Sigma and Total Quality Management became widespread, as the U.S.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.